Homemade Southern Biscuits

Homemade Southern Biscuits are easier to make than you think, and you can make them perfectly on your first try. In fact, you can make them in five easy steps. This is a quick and simple recipe for biscuits at home that bake up perfectly golden on the outside, flaky and buttery on the inside every single time.

This is a great recipe for all of us to have under our belt, but if you’re a lady hailing from the South, it’s pure necessity. It requires few ingredients, and in less than 10 minutes, you’ll have homemade Southern biscuits baking up mile-high in your very own oven.

SOUTHERN BISCUIT INGREDIENTS

All-Purpose Flour

Cold, Unsalted Butter

Baking Powder and Baking Soda

Milk

It doesn’t take much to make Southern Biscuits at home. The base is a mixture of flour, along with two leaveners — the baking powder and baking soda — and salt.

Butter serves as the fat, making them flavorful and tender and milk is the liquid that brings it all together and binds the dough.

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE SOUTHERN BISCUITS

Now, let’s move on to our 5 easy steps for making Homemade Southern Biscuits from scratch.

Mix dry ingredients.

Cut in the butter.

Stir in the milk.

Pat out the dough and cut the biscuits.

Bake.

1. MIX YOUR DRY INGREDIENTS

Your homemade biscuits will begin with a mix of dry ingredients: all-purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda, and salt. Add the ingredients to a large mixing bowl, and whisk to combine.

2. CUT IN THE BUTTER

Once your dry ingredients are mixed up, it’s time to cut in the butter. But first, you must cut the butter.

Cut the butter into small cubes and scatter across the bowl, then cut the butter into the dry ingredients.

You can do this using a pastry blender, or two knives if you want to be super old-fashioned about it. Continue working until it resembles small peas scattered throughout the mix…obviously, they won’t be green.

WHY COLD BUTTER FOR BISCUIT DOUGH?

One of the most important ingredients in Homemade Southern biscuits is the butter, and more specifically, the temperature of the butter. When working butter into a pastry dough (which essentially what homemade biscuits are), it is important the butter is cold. Very cold.

The cold butter helps to create little steam pockets throughout the makeup of the dough, in turn, creating layers and one heck of a flaky homemade Southern biscuit.

Moving on to step three.

3. ADD THE MILK

Milk is all you need to bind the ingredients and form the dough. Add the milk, and stir with a sturdy, wooden spoon until evenly incorporated. If the spoon didn’t fully do the trick, just get in there with your hands and lightly knead a few times to bring it all together.

4. CUT THE BISCUITS

Lay the biscuits out on a floured work surface and pat them into a rectangle or dough round, about 1″ thick. From here, you can either cut the biscuits into 2″ squares using a knife or using a round cookie cutter.

You can re-combine the scraps up to two times to get the most out of your dough.

5. BAKE

Biscuits bake at a high temperature so be sure to preheat your oven before you get started. This way, you can be confident it is reading true to temperature when it comes time to bake.

Place your Homemade Southern Biscuits on a baking sheet prepared with either parchment paper or a silicone baking mat, and let ’em go in the oven until they are golden-brown, flaky perfection.

USE HOMEMADE SOUTHERN BISCUITS FOR…

You can bake up a big batch over the weekend, freeze what’s left behind, and reheat them on the weekdays for a quick-fix breakfast. Use them to serve up the crowd-pleasing breakfast favorite Biscuits and Gravy, serve them on the side of just about any comfort food dinner, or simply top them with a little extra smear of butter and a drizzle of honey and call it dessert.

This is everything you need to know to get those perfect homemade Southern biscuits right on your very first go-round, and one you’ll be able to put to good use for a lifetime.

They’re quick, easy, and perfect for big family breakfasts or even breakfast on the go. Biscuits are portable, you know? However (or wherever) you should choose to consume them, please, enjoy.

A quick and simple recipe for Southern Homemade Biscuits that bake up perfectly golden on the outside, and flaky and buttery on the inside.

Course:
Breakfast, Side Dish

Cuisine:
American

Keyword:
Biscuits

Servings: 12

Calories: 135kcal

Author: Kelly Anthony

Ingredients

2cupsall-purpose flour, plus extra for working with dough

1teaspoon baking powder

1teaspoonbaking soda

1teaspoon fine sea salt

6tablespoonscold unsalted butter, cut into small cubes

3/4cupwhole milk

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400° and have ready a baking sheet lined with either parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.

In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and whisk to combine.

Scatter the cubes of butter across dry mixture, and using a pastry blender, cut in the butter until the cubes are the size of peas.

Add the milk and stir with a wooden spoon until the dough comes together. Lightly knead the mixture a bit with your hands (only if necessary) to bring it all together.

Transfer the dough to a work surface dusted with flour and pat out so that it is 1" thick. Cut into 2" squares or use a biscuit cutter to form the biscuits. You can re-work the scraps up to two times to make more biscuits.

Transfer to the prepared baking sheet and bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the biscuits are golden-brown. Serve and enjoy.

made these to make breakfast sandwiches and they concluded very flavorful, buttery, light inside and crispy outside. Perfect for sandwich of bacon/egg/cheese. I made 6 instead of 12 as I wanted them substantial for fillers. I always make 7 up biscuits but now will make these instead.

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